“…[Correction added on 17 August 2012, after first online publication: Number of cases of zoonotic onchocerciasis was changed from 16 to 15.] These include one from Albania (Pampiglione et al, 2001), one from Austria (Koehsler et al, 2007), one from Hungary (Sallo et al, 2005), one from Kuwait (Hira et al, 2008), eight (one unpublished and four published cases from Oita, one published case from Hiroshima, and two unpublished cases from each of Hiroshima and Shimane, in the southwest of Honshu) from Japan (Takaoka et al, 1996(Takaoka et al, , 2004Uni et al, 2010;Uni et al, 2012;unpublished data), one from Turkey (Otranto et al, 2011), and two from the U.S.A. (Burr et al, 1998;Wright et al, 2002).…”